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I Win Headline Derby
By Kyle | July 17, 2008
Though my brilliant colleague Billy Heller writes most of the headlines in the Post’s Pulse section, including yesterday’s “Grinner Takes All,” I’m slightly embarrassed to admit I wrote the hed for tomorrow’s review of the supergay new musical “Mamma Mia”: ABBA-DABBA-DOO!
Seriously, this movie is a quantum leap forward in gay technology. It is to previous incarnations of gay what the Apollo space program was to the bicycle. Lou Lumenick predicts it will do $30 million this weekend, though there is a slightly more interesting movie opening against it. Is this a much gayer country than I previously suspected? Is “Mamma Mia” the gay Batman? The Flighty Knight?
Topics: Broadway, Movies, Music, Newspapers |
July 17th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Nolan may be keeping Robin in the Batman’s closet for now, but there is still plenty of gay subtext to be teased out of TDK beyond “you complete me.” Is Bruce winking when he asks Harvey, “ballet?” Adam West couldn’t have delivered the line better. And how are we kidding, Kyle, aren’t Alfred and Lucius a pair of old queens fussing over their leather-clad protege? At least “Mamma Mia!” is out and proud. Thanks for the headline.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Gay movies. Straight movies. Everything’s good. Just don’t mix the two.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Pierce Brosnan? Stellan Skarsgard? Colin Firth?
And it’s GAY???
I think we need to have a rehash of where the line is between “gay” and just “chick flick.”
July 18th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
P.S., haven’t seen it, just am planning to.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Chick flics ARE gay.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
If “Mamma Mia” isn’t gay, then Michael Musto is Clint Eastwood.
July 19th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
When a guy comes on to Eastwood’s detective in “Tightrope” and asks him why he doesn’t try it, Clint squints, pauses and casually replies, “what makes you think I haven’t?”